tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post4148019924273266882..comments2024-01-08T08:57:17.157+00:00Comments on Rod McKie Illustrations and Cartoons: Against Charity!!Rod McKiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15322224888246015883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-72545810633030619452007-10-25T23:42:00.000+00:002007-10-25T23:42:00.000+00:00I don't know if there is a post somewhere on the b...I don't know if there is a post somewhere on the blog here about it, but I think there are better ways into cartooning than the conventional route - which might never pay off anyway.<BR/><BR/>If I was starting out today, I'd make submitting cartoons a small part of my plan. I would submit illustration portfolios or point 'Art Editors' at a website portfolio, and I'd do a few self-published mini-comics. I'd also join the Comics Journal forum and get to know people there and submit work to anthologies that are often posted on that board. Nowadays, putting some good indy free work out there (at a small financial loss to you) will open more doors than getting some cartoons published.<BR/><BR/>A web comic at Web Comics Nation or Drunken Duck or similar might be a much better career-lift than getting a cartoon or two in Private Eye - it's a very parochial magazine.Rod McKiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15322224888246015883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-14054160100335534292007-10-25T15:10:00.000+00:002007-10-25T15:10:00.000+00:00I've tried to get published a few times, but paper...I've tried to get published a few times, but papers don't seem to carry many cartoons these days. I tried Private Eye, but I don't think my cartoons were unfunny enough for them :)<BR/><BR/>Currently I am trying to do some flash animations instead. I suppose my humor is a bit like "The Far Side".Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287832113168610336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-8878959069195329842007-10-25T14:22:00.000+00:002007-10-25T14:22:00.000+00:00I love tasteless cartoons. I'm a big fan of John ...I love tasteless cartoons. I'm a big fan of John Callaghan's uber-tasteless cartoons.<BR/><BR/>I don't know if she reads it Steve, it's my bette-noir. It lauds cartoonists from overseas or from the UK after they've made it or died, and carries 5-page articles on cartooning, complete with 'examples' of the work, but the paper itself carries little in the way of cartoons and illustrations. It's like, it's an artform for critical reasons, or if Steve Bell is drawing it, but even then not really. Plus, like Zadie's publisher, the old Gruniad/Observer has discovered this 'new' phenomenon called 'graphic novels'. <BR/><BR/>Did you notice that Zadie gets a mention in the Observer graphic novel/shortstory competition? So did Posey, and all the others, why, it's almost like a publicity stunt.<BR/><BR/>The winning entry was a cross between Little Nemo, the Upside Down Me and the Perry Bible Fellowship, with a script from a 1930's Tales of Suspense comic. Seemed to impress the hell out of the 'judges'.Rod McKiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15322224888246015883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12581147.post-57971592870278224632007-10-25T02:07:00.000+00:002007-10-25T02:07:00.000+00:00I was at Kings with Zadie Smith in the same year. ...I was at Kings with Zadie Smith in the same year. I can't remember whether she read the Guardian though :)<BR/><BR/>She can sing, which maybe not many people know. <BR/><BR/>I'm afraid I'm a member of the other 99.9% of people from that year that aren't famous authors.<BR/><BR/>I used to do various tasteless cartoons for the college newspaper including one infamous one of Stephen Hawking as a rampaging Dalek.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287832113168610336noreply@blogger.com